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Feb 03, 1823 Châlons en Champagne, Grand Est, France Died on 04 Sep 1902 (aged 79)
French psychiatrist
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About Henri Dagonet
- Henri Dagonet (3 February 1823 in Châlons-sur-Marne – 4 September 1902 in Paris) was a French psychiatrist. In 1849 he received his medical doctorate, and during the following year became superintendent at the Stéphansfeld asylum.
- From 1854 he served as professeur agrégé at Strasbourg, relocating to Paris in 1867, where he was appointed superintendent of the Sainte-Anne asylum.
- During his long career at Sainte-Anne, he worked with Prosper Lucas (1805–1885), Valentin Magnan (1835–1916) and Gustave Bouchereau (1835–1900).
- In 1885 he was president of the Société Médico-Psychologique.In 1862 he published Traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales, with further editions in 1876 and 1894 as Nouveau traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales.
- The second edition (1876) is recognized as the first medical textbook to utilize photographic illustration of patients.
- The book contains eight plates-Woodburytype depicting 33 "types of insanity".
